Andy Grundy started 51Clicks in 2011 with the goal of bringing smarter, more strategic pay-per-click advertising to businesses of all sizes.

Andy started his career at CBS records. He held a variety of marketing-related positions there as well as at CBS’s parent company, Sony Music, and later at Columbia Records, the world’s largest record company.

At Columbia Andy was responsible for marketing more than twenty-five #1 records, including Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey, Jeff Buckley, Tony Bennett, and many others. His radio, retail, print, television and in-store merchandising campaigns reached from coast to coast.

By 1998, Andy was Director of Sales and Marketing at Columbia, but ultimately left to co-found Spun.com, the internet’s first real-time exchange for pre-owned CD’s, games and movies. Spun was acquired by Idealab in Pasadena, California in 2000. Today the technology Spun pioneered powers the ecommerce sites of several international retailers.

Andy was inspired to get involved in Pay Per Click advertising by Bill Gross, his boss at Idealab and founder of GoTo.com, which became Overture before being acquired by Yahoo for 1.6 Billion dollars. Gross is considered “The Father of Pay-Per-Click”.

Andy and his companies have been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNET, Business Management textbooks, etc.